Economic Methodology and Freedom to Choose (Routledge Revivals)

Patrick O'Sullivan is Professor of Business Ethics and Head of Department of People Organisations and Society at the Grenoble Ecole de Management in France. He is also a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic and Public Policy Research at the University of Cambridge and is an occasional visiting professor at Göthe Business School Frankfurt University and at Warsaw University.

• Part 1: Philosophical Prolegomena 1. A Critical Philosophical Methodology of Science 2. The Challenge of the Anti-Philosophies 3. Science and the Quest for Truth 4. The Methodological Alternatives Part 2: Economic Science: A Methodological Case Study 5. The Economic Theory of Deliberate Choice 6. Teleological Explanation in Microeconomics and Macroeconomics 7. Rationality Postulates in Economic Theory 8. Methodological Precepts and Practice in Economics 9. What Economists Have Said and What They Have Done 10. The Austrian Exception 11. The Twofold Methodological Gap Part 3: The Philosophical Deduction 12. The Existentialist Deduction of a Subjectivist Methodology 13. The Existentialist Refutation of an Objectivist Methodology 14. The Central Principles of a Subjectivist Methodology: Alfred Schutz 15. A Resolution of Some Notorious Sticking Points 16. A Conclusion and Some Open Questions

'O'Sullivan's thought-provoking work is a significant addition to the rapidly expanding literature on economic methodology.'- R.S. Hewett, Drake University, CHOICE